Category Archives: CoActive Health Practice Updates

Multivitamins and Mortality and Vitamin E and Prostate Cancer

Can Tak­ing Multi Vit­a­mins Be Harm­ful? Two stud­ies were released last week that painted a neg­a­tive pic­ture on vit­a­min sup­ple­men­ta­tion: par­tic­u­larly mul­ti­vi­t­a­mins and all-cause mor­tal­ity & vit­a­min E and risk of prostate can­cer. I think it is impor­tant to under­stand that stud­ies are only as reveal­ing as the ques­tions they explore, and in both cases, it…

FrankenFood Friday: Juicy Marketing

One lit­tle known truth is that fruit juices have just as much sugar as some sodas. With­out the fiber and nat­ural “syn­ergy” found in a whole fruit…fruit juice becomes sugar water and nutri­ents. I guess it’s bet­ter than Vit­a­min Water, but it’s a stretch to call it a health food.

FrankenFood Friday: The Meat Monster

Ken­tucky Fried Chicken started the super-sandwich trend with their Dou­ble­Down sand­wich which fea­tured bacon in between two slabs of fried chicken, but folks this new sand­wich makes the Double-Down look like a girl scout.

What I Have Been Reading Around the Web

For a lit­tle while I was send­ing out updates on my favorite arti­cles of the month from around the web and some­how lost track. As many of you know, I’m fairly active on the web. I’ve made 100’s of con­nec­tions and have writ­ten over 150 arti­cles over the past 2 years. Here’s some links on…

CoActive Health’s 7 Key Guidelines for Healthy Eating

Nutri­tion­ists are often crit­i­cized for telling you some­thing dif­fer­ent every time. This is because nutri­tion is highly rel­a­tive. What’s good for the whole pop­u­la­tion, may not be a good for you based on your goals and circumstances.